[csaa-forum] Call For Papers: Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference, Perth, 27-29 April 2007

[Jonathan MARSHALL]

Dear colleagues,

Please find below the call for submissions for the 2007 Totally Huge New Music Festival Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 27th - 29th April 2007. Confirmed keynote speakers include Philip Brophy (http://www.philipbrophy.com/ <http://www.philipbrophy.com/> ). Colleagues are reminded that this is an interdisciplinary Conference and we welcome papers on contemporary practice, cultural studies, history, etc. Further details are included below and on http://www.tura.com.au <http://www.tura.com.au/>  Please feel free to distribute to the appropriate networks. Appologies for cross postings.

CONFERENCE: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Tura New Music invite proposals for formal papers, lecture-performances, artist talks, master-classes, and panels of three or four papers for

The 2007 TOTALLY HUGE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL CONFERENCE

Perth, Western Australia, 27th - 29th April 2007

The THNMF Conference, held in conjunction with The 8th Totally Huge New Music Festival, is a forum for artists from diverse areas of practice, along with critics, commentators and academics, to discuss the ideas which underline contemporary New Music and Sound Art-the histories, methods, theories, approaches, techniques and dreams which make up the modern world of music and Sound Arts. The THNMF Conference offers opportunity for presentations of refereed and non-refereed papers, performances, demonstrations and workshops

The Conference is presented by Tura New Music, in association with the Faculty of Education and Arts, Edith Cowan University, including the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and is supported by the School of Music at the University of Western Australia.

The theme for the 2007 Conference is:

THE SONIC IMAGE: 

Exploring the relationships between the sound and visual worlds.

Sound and image have traditionally been seen as opposing concepts; a separation of eye and ear. Yet visual methods of transcription and recording have been part of standard musical practice since the invention of notation, through to the later development of waveform analysis and visualisation in the 20th century.

The focus of the conference is how have musicians and theorists-particularly in Australia-approached this dialectic between sound and image? How have composers/improvisers/sound artists drawn on visual languages, metaphors and techniques in creating their music, and how have they collaborated with practitioners in the visual arts and cinema to produce new sound works and new ways of thinking about the act of composition? Can visuality exist in contemporary pure music works?

These are some of the questions will be tackled within the 2007 Conference and which will be supported by a selection of related Festival events.

SUGGESTED TOPICS & THEMES:

The 8th Totally Huge New Music Festival and the associated Conference are inclusive events, devised to appeal to both practitioners and academics, audiences and artists. As such, the Conference Convenors welcome proposals involving any aspect of Australian New Music, international Sound Art, composition and sonic creation. We are however particularly seeking papers and sessions which address the principal themes of the Conference. Suggested topics for papers include (but are not limited to): -

- Image in Australian composition in the 21st century

- Cinesonics and other intersections between screen culture and music/sound (film score, sound design for screen, installation, music video, musical composition for web-pages, gaming culture)

- Performance and projection (VJ-ing, A-V art, projection and sound in theatre and dance, the musical performer as a visual focus)

- The gap between visual scores and musical performance, improvisation and the score, conventional notation as visual art

- Visual metaphors in music (the acousmatic image, composition as

landscape, visualising space in music, the use of the descriptor "cinematic" in popular music criticism, waveform in Sound Art)

- Synaesthesia and the translation of visual perception into music or sound, and vice-versa (Futurist and Surrealist synaesthesia, colour in music, the close-up and extreme focus in music, operatic composition as a total art of sound and image)

FOR SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & INFORMATION ABOUT THE 2007 TOTALLY HUGE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL:

www.tura.com.au

Tura New Music

Suite 10, 1 Rokeby Rd

Subiaco WA 6008

Australia

Ph: 61.8. 9380 6996

Fax: 61.8. 9380 6997

Email: info at tura.com.au

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Jonathan Marshall, PhD, MA,

Research Fellow,

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University,

2 Bradford Street,

Mt Lawley, WA 6050

PH: +618 9370 6796

FAX: +618 9370 6665

jonathan.marshall at ecu.edu.au

http://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au/about/staff_view.php?rec_id=0000000096 <http://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au/about/staff_view.php?rec_id=0000000096>  

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